leaders and their supporters in the nation of 11000000 are calling for the resignation of president jovan l. moyse 51 amid anger over fuel and food shortages a steep currency devaluation and corruption allegations this is the longest stretch of demonstrations against noise since they broke out last year at least 17 people have been killed and $189.00 injured according to haiti's national network for the defense of human rights and where crude plays into this is so they've raised the price of fuel and why that has happened is that haitians are angry at fuel shortages since the collapse of the petro caribe program under which venezuela for a decade offered aid and cheap financing to several caribbean nations to bias gasoline diesel and other products the cash strapped country has. struggle to import and off market prices gas stations are regularly out of fuel for days at a time and blackouts increasingly common the shortages plus government attempts to reduce fuel subsidies have caused prices to soar exacerbating an already dire situation half the population lives on less than 2.4 dollars a day they

jovan l. to resign. we're demanding that juvenile moyse leave power because there are many young people that can't work rather than work they offer us arms many of us went to school we learned a profession but we can't work in this country that's why we're demanding that juvenile moyse go and if he doesn't want to ruin to set fire to the whole country. so joining us to discuss the protests from port au prince of alina. and anti-corruption activists also in port au prince are in me and economist and author of the book haiti has chosen to be a poor country in minneapolis minnesota to bomb a journalist who's been covering the protests he has contributed reporting on haiti to news outlets including al jazeera and from monaco is haiti's foreign minister at mon welcome everyone to the stream so good to have you here and i want to start with people online because that's where a lot of frustration is being vented right now alina i'll direct this one your way it's from william who describes what life is like these days william says i'm currently in port au prince it's an arche he goes on to say every major roadway pav